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Rhodesian Front

British  

noun

  1. the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Outraged, the Rhodesian Front turned to 45-year-old Ian Smith, a rancher from Selukwe who had served as Field's Minister of Finance.

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A longtime critic of Prime Minister Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front party, Peech had organized several meetings with Macheke's tribesmen and informally had tried to work out a cease-fire with black national guerrillas in the district.

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He took off immediately for the Rhodesian border town of Umtali, where the annual congress of his Rhodesian Front Party was under way.

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The Rhodesian Front is expected to wind up with 35 seats, to 29 for the U.F.P.

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The defections potentially reduce Muzorewa's parliamentary support to a minority of 44 seats in the 100-member assembly, meaning that the bishop's survival may depend on the votes of Smith's Rhodesian Front Party.

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